The huge expansion of new marketplaces and new retailers over the last fifty years has created a retail revolution. These large and globally sophisticated retailers have harnessed the new technologies in communications and logistics to build consumer markets around the world and…
In 11 chapters by leading scholars, 'The Market Makers' provides a detailed but highly readable analysis of how retailers have become the leading drivers of the new global economy.
Gary G. Hamilton is Professor of International Studies and of Sociology at the University of Washington. He specializes in historical/comparative sociology, economic sociology, and organizational sociology. He also specializes in Asian societies, with particular emphasis on Chin…
In 11 chapters by leading scholars, 'The Market Makers' provides a detailed but highly readable analysis of how retailers have become the leading drivers of the new global economy.
In 11 chapters by leading scholars, 'The Market Makers' provides a detailed but highly readable analysis of how retailers have become the leading drivers of the new global economy.
Describes the history of the Candyland sweet shop in St. Paul, Minnesota from its start in 1932, when it was called Flavo Korn, through the generations of visitors lured by the store's signature popcorn blends and homemade chocolates and fudge.--Excerpted from publisher statemen…
"Savor the sweet Twin Cities history of Candyland"-- "Describes the history of the Candyland sweet shop in St. Paul, Minnesota"--
"Savor the sweet Twin Cities history of Candyland"-- "Describes the history of the Candyland sweet shop in St. Paul, Minnesota"--
"This book provides a comprehensive yet easy-to-read account of current knowledge related to assortment and merchandising decisions. It uncovers the interdependencies between these decisions from the shopper's perspective, and translates academic insights and experience-based ev…
"This book provides a comprehensive yet easy-to-read account of current knowledge related to assortment and merchandising decisions. It uncovers the interdependencies between these decisions from the shopper's perspective, and translates academic insights and experience-based ev…
"This book provides a comprehensive yet easy-to-read account of current knowledge related to assortment and merchandising decisions. It uncovers the interdependencies between these decisions from the shopper's perspective, and translates academic insights and experience-based ev…
Point of sale: analyzing media retail
Point of Sale offers the first significant attempt to center media retail as a vital component in the study of popular culture. It brings together fifteen essays by top media scholars with their fingers on the pulse of both the changes that foreground retail in a digital age and…